Motivated by a blog post comment: https://blog.torproject.org/comment/269237#comment-269237
It looks like a growing number of connections from Tor exits are being treated by Google as being Ukrainian. Anecdotally, I've experienced it too -- Google news keeps wanting to give me Ukrainian news. For those who haven't been paying attention, we got a jump in some hundreds of thousands of .ua users recently: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-05-01&end=2017-06-18&country=ua&events=off and it looks like they're really users: https://bugs.torproject.org/22369 Here's my speculation: You know how Google's proprietary geoip system is typically better than Maxmind's, because they data mine the heck out of their traffic, for example by deciding that the google maps address you ask about most is probably your home address? I wonder if a lot of ordinary people doing ordinary things via Tor, and acting like people in the Ukraine, has tipped Google's sekrit-sauce machine learning decision trees into labeling those IP addresses as being in .ua. --Roger -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
